Culinary knife



Sept. 13, 1932. A G, lWEBSTER 1,877,211

CULINARY KNIFE Filed MaICh 24, 1950 x zegel:

.l va sa 40 n, Kwan F 3.i 4T' JNVENTOR Patented Sept. 13, 1932 GERTRUDE WEBSTER, or Los'iAnGE'Ln's, QAL1FQRI CULINARY y' Application filed March 24,1930. serial No. 438,315l-f 'Y 1 culinary implement Where use is made of a plurality of two or more knife blades the spaces betweenthese knife blades being adjustable laterally by manually operated means.

A final object thereof is to provide a cutting implement with rotary means on the handle thereof, designed, when actuated, to space apart the several parallel knife blades variably so that slices of different thicknesses .may be cut.

`l/Vith the above and other objects the invention consists in the `arrangement,combination and details in the drawing and specification, and then more particularly pointed out in the appended claim. n

In the drawing, wherein similar reference characters designate similar out the respective views,

Figure l is a longitudinal section through niy invention;

Figure 2 is a top plan View thereof,

Figure 3 is a side elevation thereof7 Figure 4 is a cross sectional view of the complete device,

Figure 5 is an end elevation of the device looking from the rear,

Figure 6 is a cross-sectional View taken through the slidable members of the device.

I provide a construction of knife wherein the plurality of blades are transversely ad` justable in a simple manner. A rectangular case 19 provides the handle for the knife and secured therearound and secured upon the flat sides thereof are the four preferably Wooden segment shaped pieces 20 secured by A further object thereof is to provide a` of construction disclosed parts through-V threaded pins or thelikefastenersl 2li-'to the flat sides of this casef Inside of this caseare slidably mountedl the channel-shaped cutters.` :One cutterisconrposed of the vertical knife edged :Wall 22 Whose Vparallel right-angular lateral langes;

irfs'rres r oppositely arranged Y 23, 24 slidably rub against the interior Walls ofthe case; these flanges 23, 24 normally engage with Wall 22 atleast in one half of the i" Width of the case. The other channelshaped cutter is also 'composed ofthevertical Wal125 1 Whose right-angular parallel flanges 26,27 arev designed` to slide faces of the fianges There is; a medial vertically and iixedly zand operatively se cured at its rear to 19, andthe flanges 26, 27 are constrained at all against the interior sur# times. tolslide in contact With thejupper and Y 657 lower `edges of this vmedialknife member 31;

23, 24 oftheother cutter. Y knife member extending 4the rear Wall of the .case c Asa means of separating the Walls 22, and 25 of theltwo slidable cutter members 4awscreW shank 28 is provided With respectively right and left handed threads B and @,the ends of I this screw shank being journaled'operatively in thel opposing verticaly Walls Aof 'the side Wooden pieces 20, and may also operatively befmounted rotatively in the side Walls of the Y case. f i Y e, f

, gOne of the side Wooden pieces 20, the one shown to the left in Figure ,4L is cut avvay to provide elongated lateral slots or isother- Wise provided Withspaces Dfor the longitudinal shaft 32d to extend freely in. At one end ofthe screw shankr28is fixed a smallbevelV gear 29 'projecting in o r friction disk 38 engaging rotatively a fric-` tion disk or gear 37 `mounted-,upon a shaftv @operatively mounted uponthe reary frame M, vof the case l9and thedisk or gear.-37

'se the mentionedslot 25a Y `Where it meshes `With the bevel gearlSO lo-f 50 ji l 1,877,211 f ric'tionallyr'and rotatively engages with the *partition operatively disposed in the'handley large disk or gear 35 fixed on a stub shaft 36 against the opposing edges of' which the arranged centrally of the V'case 19 at its rear flanges of the second carrier slides, gears on end, and Carrying also the friction hand the ends of said screw-bolts, a longitudinal 'wheel 35', all these parts being specifically shaft carried externally of the handleand '70 shown also in Figure 5. having gears thereon meshing'withthe lirst vrlhere are two screw or'threaded shanks, gears to operate them, manually controlled 'Y `one already described as at 28, extending means for actuatingV the'longitudinal shaft transversely in the case and threaded with and a lining around the handle in which the f '10 right and left handedthreads into the verlongitudinal shaft is mounted.

tical walls 22 and-25 respectively ofthe slid- In witness whereof she has hereunder set able cutter members or carriages. The sec'- her yhand this 3rd day of'February, 1930.

i l l GERTRUDE WEBSTER.

ond threaded shank isdesignated 28a and also extends transversely in the case.4 Each Y Y shank has at one end a bevely gear 32a which Y p Y .80- i mesheswith the bevel 'gear 29a'also fixed on shaft 32d, and this seco'nd shank 28a is also vformed with right and left hand threads tapped threadedly into .the walls 22, 25 of ,Y the slidable cutter carriages. There may be v Y i l Y v85 anopening al formed inthe back part ofi-the frameM in which the gear 35 may freely rotate. -K' he long narrowl knife blades32, 33 and 3a are respectively carried by'the'flange Y 25, thewall 3l and the flange 22 in the' case, v 'l i n 17u90.

thewall 31 being stationary.. Figure 8 shows the wooden pieces 20 removed from the handle, but these pieces give the'handle a rounded appearance. When the operator takes 3@ hold ofthe handle case and frictionally en- 7 95 gages the wheel 35 and turns this wheel in v l Y the right direction, movement is imparted to gears 37 ,and 38 so shaft 32d turns, causing y the bevel gears on the screw shanks to turn, Y 35 and now the cutter carriages or members will Q 100 move towards or from each other and so will Y A the knife blades 32 and 34 moveftowards or from the fixed blade 33. `The flanges 26, 2 7 will slide-towards the fixed wall 31 and sov 4 0 will the flangesy 23, 24 of the' Vother cutter p i 105 overlapping the 4flanges 26, 27. I do not lmean `to restrict myself to the exact details of construction but intend to cover all variations falling 'within the scope of the appended claim. l 1110 What I desire to claim and to secure by Letters Patent is: 'A three-bladed cutter consisting of an elongated rectangular handle closed at its rear y t 'end and open at its front end, a channelv v 115 shaped carrier having its cross-piece normally seated against a side wall of the handle and having parallel cross flanges of a length greater than one half the cross area ofthe handle, a second channel-shaped carrier havv l 1.720

ing parallel flanges of the same length as the other flanges but slidably and snugly fitting the'inner faces of the first carrier, with its cross piece normally engaging another side wall, of the handle, a plurality of screw bolts 125 f spanning thecrcss-piecesof the carriers and having terminal right and left handed screw threads engaging the same, wherebyy when they are turned the carriers are movedto and from each other-transversely, a central i'xed i i* p' isc 

